Hammers clear on Bilic future

Sky Sports News HQ are reporting this afternoon that West Ham United would be interested in Fulham boss Slavisa Jokanovic (above) if they decided to relieve Slaven Bilic of his job this summer.

The Serbian who led Watford to promotion in 2014-15 has the Cottagers  within two points of the Championship ply off places and was freely mentioned as a possible for the Hammers job before Slav took over.

The Irons in fact didn’t invite him for an interview and our information following this story is that should Slav lead the club to safety this season there is next to no chance of him being replaced by anyone anyway.

The Hammers aren’t looking at any possible replacements seriously as they are determined to allow the boss to lead the club in the third year of his contract assuming they get the sort of finish which now looks possible.

We were told: “Jokanovic is just another name people choose to throw around but the likely scenario is that Slaven will be in charge next season and although a new deal won’t be offered immediately he will be given the time to earn one.”